9/26/2025 3:12:34 PM FCA invites discussion on applying its Handbook to cryptoasset firms By Cyrus Pocha Claire Harrop Noah Schmidt Robert Stevens +1 more... Show less The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a consultation and discussion paper on 17 September 2025 outlining its proposals for...
9/26/2025 3:10:03 PM FCA publishes proposals for applying its Handbook to cryptoasset firms By Cyrus Pocha Claire Harrop Noah Schmidt Robert Stevens +1 more... Show less The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a consultation paper on 17 September 2025 outlining its proposals for applying the...
1/2/2025 3:24:29 PM MiCAR perimeter issues – tokenized deposits and payment services By Alexander Glos Daniel Klingenbrunn As far as MiCAR is concerned, December 2024 was a busy month for both market participants and competent authorities. On 17 December 2024,...
12/2/2024 3:50:58 PM Regulating cryptoassets in the UK: a guide to the road ahead By Cyrus Pocha Claire Harrop Christopher Bernard Finally! Avid readers of Freshfields blogs might remember from our post last autumn that the UK government and financial regulators in...
9/3/2024 3:26:26 PM Herding cats: English law and Decentralised Autonomous Organisations By Claire Harrop Christopher Bernard Joana Fragata Background On 11 July 2024, the Law Commission published a scoping paper (the Scoping Paper) on Decentralised Autonomous Organisations...
6/21/2024 6:46:49 PM Grandfathering under MiCA – how member states approach the transitional regime By Janina Heinz Daphne van der Houwen Daniel Klingenbrunn Eva Schneider Steffie De Backer Eloi Roche +3 more... Show less The harmonisation of European financial services law for cryptocurrencies is approaching with great strides, or is it? As per the...
5/24/2024 6:05:54 PM Self-proclaimed creator of Bitcoin found to have lied by English court: Crypto Open Patent Alliance v Wright By Emma Probyn Christine Simpson George Ho Jason Hu +1 more... Show less Background Since 2016, Dr Craig Wright, an Australian computer scientist, has been asserting intellectual property rights against...
5/3/2024 12:05:14 PM The Digital Securities Sandbox: a new model for trading and settlement in the UK? By James Smethurst Christopher Bernard Olivia Davies On 3 April 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Bank of England (BoE) published a consultation paper setting out their...
2/7/2024 1:15:23 PM The digital pound enters the design phase: what next? By Cyrus Pocha Noah Schmidt Christopher Bernard Overview Frequent readers of this blog know that we have been keeping a watchful eye on the UK’s evolving approach to the potential...
2/7/2024 10:30:47 AM Cryptoasset regulatory and risk developments: the global picture By Cyrus Pocha Timothy Howard Janina Heinz Matthew O'Callaghan David Sewell Christopher Bernard +3 more... Show less The regulation of cryptoassets around the world is an evolving landscape. In the EU, for example, the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation...
2/5/2024 12:37:44 PM Protecting clients from foreign crypto firms - ESMA consults on Guidelines on Reverse Solicitation By Daniel Klingenbrunn Jan Struckmann Alexander Glos In the area of crypto regulation, two opposite forces currently collide. On the one hand, the European regulatory framework, MiCA (or...
11/27/2023 3:21:22 PM Cryptoasset regulation: UK regulators give the industry a further glimpse of the future By Cyrus Pocha Noah Schmidt Christopher Bernard On 30 October 2023, HM Treasury (HMT) published three documents setting out how the UK government plans to regulate cryptoassets going...